Margot Singer

Margot Singer
Occupation	Short story writer and novelist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University Oxford University University of Utah
Notable awards	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2006)

Margot Singer is an American short story writer and novelist. Her book The Pale of Settlement won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2006 and her novel Underground Fugue was listed as "one of the most anticipated books by women in 2017" by Elle Magazine.

Biography

She graduated from Harvard University for her undergraduate degree, Oxford University with a M.Phil. in 1986 after she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, and University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 2005.

Singer worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 1986 until 1997, where she was a Principal in the New York Office.

She teaches at Denison University in Granville, Ohio and at Queens University of Charlotte. She lives with her husband and two children in Granville, Ohio.

Her work has appeared Agni, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, The Western Humanities Review, The North American Review, The Sun, among other magazines.

Awards

• 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Pale of Settlement
• Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers for The Pale of Settlement
• Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction for The Pale of Settlement
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Carter Prize for the Essay
• 2013 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for The Art of Fugue, later retitled Underground Fugue.

Works

• The Pale of Settlement. University of Georgia Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8203-3331-1. Margot Singer.
• Underground Fugue, Meville House, ISBN 978-1-61219-628-2

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Interviewed by Anne Barngrover", Southeast Review, September 16, 2009